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Christopher Morley: God made man...

Christopher Morley: God made man...

God made man merely to hear some praise
Of what he'd done on those Five Days.


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Alex Haley: My fondest hope...

Alex Haley: My fondest hope...

My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. ...

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Christopher Morley: In every man's...

Christopher Morley: In every man's...

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

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Christopher Morley: Any man worth...

Christopher Morley: Any man worth...

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire should, like...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Satire should, like...

Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or...

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George Moore: A literary movement...

George Moore: A literary movement...

A literary movement consists of five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other...

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Kate Seredy: [My stories were]...

Kate Seredy: [My stories were]...

[My stories were] an excuse for making pictures.

Source:...

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Tom Sharpe: His had been...

Tom Sharpe: His had been...

His had been an intellectual decision founded on his conviction that if a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a...

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Margery Allingham: Self-satisfaction is the...

Margery Allingham: Self-satisfaction is the...

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Wise Man: One...

Edgar Watson Howe: Wise Man: One...

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

Source: The...

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Don Delillo: Hardship makes the...

Don Delillo: Hardship makes the...

Hardship makes the world obscure.

Source: James Axton, in The Names, ch. 12...

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Robert Ludlum: I write primarily...

Robert Ludlum: I write primarily...

I write primarily as an entertainer. But I find that whehter you're writing comically or dramtically, you write from a...

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Charles W Chesnutt: Impossibilities are merely...

Charles W Chesnutt: Impossibilities are merely...

Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to...

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Sinclair Lewis: She did her...

Sinclair Lewis: She did her...

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind that reveres details and never quite understands...

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Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

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Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for...

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Marguerite Duras: Journalism without a...

Marguerite Duras: Journalism without a...

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely...

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Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

Thomas Hardy: That man's silence...

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Source: Spinks, in Under the...

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Jack Kerouac: No man should...

Jack Kerouac: No man should...

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding...

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Jack Kerouac: I don't know,...

Jack Kerouac: I don't know,...

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!

Source: In The...

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